Marie Curie in RadioActive Labs

Marie Curie- the name itself is enough to bring a lot of excitement in the minds of all those physics and chemistry enthusiasts. The very mention of the name would relate the name with noble prizes and the Davy medal apart from radioactivity and cancer treatment. Some of the greatest works in cancer treatment using radioactive elements were carried our jointly by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie who worked along side Marie in the radioactive laboratories of the two. Ironically, Marie Curie died of cancer as a result of her constant exposure to radioactive elements with which she spent most of her life. Though a polish person by birth, she moved on to France where she did her studies and settled down. It was here that she met Pierre and married him. It was a family of sorts with her daughter and son- in- law too being recipients of noble prizes. She was the first woman to win the noble prize and the first person to win two noble prizes. She won a noble prize for physics and a noble prize for chemistry! She was a pioneer in cancer studies and also found two new elements- polonium and radium.